And You Shall Be in the Book
Half man, half fish, half bird, half ghost: there is always one half of him which escapes the hangman.
("Look how his face turns into a bird," said Reb Elfer to Reb Yod. "And how the squirrel tries to recognize itself in this face.
"Look how his face turns into a branch. And how the branch blossoms for the face.
"From the alder to the fir, from the abundant baobab to the delicate profile of the spindle tree: look how the world of trees ages and dies in man's face.
"For us, too, the time of transparency will come.")
Jabes, The Book of Questions
("Look how his face turns into a bird," said Reb Elfer to Reb Yod. "And how the squirrel tries to recognize itself in this face.
"Look how his face turns into a branch. And how the branch blossoms for the face.
"From the alder to the fir, from the abundant baobab to the delicate profile of the spindle tree: look how the world of trees ages and dies in man's face.
"For us, too, the time of transparency will come.")
Jabes, The Book of Questions
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"The Book," he had noted, "does not open from left to right nor right to left, but from top to bottom: one page in the sky, one page in the dust."
--Jabès
(Jim/Abu)
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